How to inject non-default entity managers?

Question

In Symfony2 you can work with multiple entity managers and use something like the code below:

$em = $this->get(\'doctrine\')->getManager();
$em = $this         


        

Answer 1

You should define your custom entity manager as a service:

services:  
    name_of_your_custom_manager:
        class: %doctrine.orm.entity_manager.class%
        factory_service:  doctrine
        factory_method:   getEntityManager
        arguments: ["name_of_your_custom_manager"]

Then, you can inject it in the same way as you do with every service:

@name_of_your_custom_manager

Edit:

Pay attention that factory method may differ between symfony's version (it could be getEntityManager or getManager)